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| author | Andrew Tridgell <tridge@samba.org> | 2000-05-12 13:05:25 +0000 |
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| committer | Andrew Tridgell <tridge@samba.org> | 2000-05-12 13:05:25 +0000 |
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- added example config section to winbindd man page
- reran yodldocs with newer version of yodl
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diff --git a/docs/htmldocs/smbpasswd.5.html b/docs/htmldocs/smbpasswd.5.html index 9ff258afad..2969022790 100644 --- a/docs/htmldocs/smbpasswd.5.html +++ b/docs/htmldocs/smbpasswd.5.html @@ -3,9 +3,10 @@ + <html><head><title>smbpasswd (5)</title> -<link rev="made" href="mailto:samba-bugs@samba.org"> +<link rev="made" href="mailto:samba@samba.org"> </head> <body> @@ -15,47 +16,46 @@ <h2>Samba</h2> <h2>23 Oct 1998</h2> - -<p><br><a name="NAME"></a> +<p><a name="NAME"></a> <h2>NAME</h2> smbpasswd - The Samba encrypted password file -<p><br><a name="SYNOPSIS"></a> +<p><a name="SYNOPSIS"></a> <h2>SYNOPSIS</h2> -<p><br>smbpasswd is the <strong>Samba</strong> encrypted password file. -<p><br><a name="DESCRIPTION"></a> +<p>smbpasswd is the <strong>Samba</strong> encrypted password file. +<p><a name="DESCRIPTION"></a> <h2>DESCRIPTION</h2> -<p><br>This file is part of the <strong>Samba</strong> suite. -<p><br>smbpasswd is the <strong>Samba</strong> encrypted password file. It contains +<p>This file is part of the <strong>Samba</strong> suite. +<p>smbpasswd is the <strong>Samba</strong> encrypted password file. It contains the username, Unix user id and the SMB hashed passwords of the user, as well as account flag information and the time the password was last changed. This file format has been evolving with Samba and has had several different formats in the past. -<p><br><a name="FILEFORMAT"></a> +<p><a name="FILEFORMAT"></a> <h2>FILE FORMAT</h2> -<p><br>The format of the smbpasswd file used by Samba 2.0 is very similar to +<p>The format of the smbpasswd file used by Samba 2.0 is very similar to the familiar Unix <strong>passwd (5)</strong> file. It is an ASCII file containing one line for each user. Each field within each line is separated from the next by a colon. Any entry beginning with # is ignored. The smbpasswd file contains the following information for each user: -<p><br><ul> -<p><br><a name="name"></a> -<li><strong><strong>name</strong></strong> <br> <br> -<p><br>This is the user name. It must be a name that already exists +<p><dl> +<p><a name="name"></a> +<p></p><dt><strong><strong>name</strong></strong><dd> <br> <br> +<p>This is the user name. It must be a name that already exists in the standard UNIX passwd file. -<p><br><a name="uid"></a> -<li><strong><strong>uid</strong></strong> <br> <br> -<p><br>This is the UNIX uid. It must match the uid field for the same +<p><a name="uid"></a> +<p></p><dt><strong><strong>uid</strong></strong><dd> <br> <br> +<p>This is the UNIX uid. It must match the uid field for the same user entry in the standard UNIX passwd file. If this does not match then Samba will refuse to recognize this <strong>smbpasswd</strong> file entry as being valid for a user. -<p><br><a name="LanmanPasswordHash"></a> -<li><strong><strong>Lanman Password Hash</strong></strong> <br> <br> -<p><br>This is the <em>LANMAN</em> hash of the users password, encoded as 32 hex +<p><a name="LanmanPasswordHash"></a> +<p></p><dt><strong><strong>Lanman Password Hash</strong></strong><dd> <br> <br> +<p>This is the <em>LANMAN</em> hash of the users password, encoded as 32 hex digits. The <em>LANMAN</em> hash is created by DES encrypting a well known string with the users password as the DES key. This is the same password used by Windows 95/98 machines. Note that this password hash @@ -67,7 +67,7 @@ smbpasswd file contains the following information for each user: is equal to 32 <code>'X'</code> characters then the users account is marked as <em>disabled</em> and the user will not be able to log onto the Samba server. -<p><br><em>WARNING !!</em>. Note that, due to the challenge-response nature of the +<p><em>WARNING !!</em>. Note that, due to the challenge-response nature of the SMB/CIFS authentication protocol, anyone with a knowledge of this password hash will be able to impersonate the user on the network. For this reason these hashes are known as <em>"plain text equivalent"</em> @@ -76,19 +76,19 @@ smbpasswd file contains the following information for each user: directory with read and traverse access only to the root user and the <strong>smbpasswd</strong> file itself must be set to be read/write only by root, with no other access. -<p><br><a name="NTPasswordHash"></a> -<li><strong><strong>NT Password Hash</strong></strong> <br> <br> -<p><br>This is the <em>Windows NT</em> hash of the users password, encoded as 32 +<p><a name="NTPasswordHash"></a> +<p></p><dt><strong><strong>NT Password Hash</strong></strong><dd> <br> <br> +<p>This is the <em>Windows NT</em> hash of the users password, encoded as 32 hex digits. The <em>Windows NT</em> hash is created by taking the users password as represented in 16-bit, little-endian UNICODE and then applying the <em>MD4</em> (internet rfc1321) hashing algorithm to it. -<p><br>This password hash is considered more secure than the <a href="smbpasswd.5.html#LanmanPasswordHash"><strong>Lanman +<p>This password hash is considered more secure than the <a href="smbpasswd.5.html#LanmanPasswordHash"><strong>Lanman Password Hash</strong></a> as it preserves the case of the password and uses a much higher quality hashing algorithm. However, it is still the case that if two users choose the same password this entry will be identical (i.e. the password is not <em>"salted"</em> as the UNIX password is). -<p><br><em>WARNING !!</em>. Note that, due to the challenge-response nature of the +<p><em>WARNING !!</em>. Note that, due to the challenge-response nature of the SMB/CIFS authentication protocol, anyone with a knowledge of this password hash will be able to impersonate the user on the network. For this reason these hashes are known as <em>"plain text equivalent"</em> @@ -97,48 +97,48 @@ smbpasswd file contains the following information for each user: directory with read and traverse access only to the root user and the <strong>smbpasswd</strong> file itself must be set to be read/write only by root, with no other access. -<p><br><a name="AccountFlags"></a> -<li><strong><strong>Account Flags</strong></strong> <br> <br> -<p><br>This section contains flags that describe the attributes of the users +<p><a name="AccountFlags"></a> +<p></p><dt><strong><strong>Account Flags</strong></strong><dd> <br> <br> +<p>This section contains flags that describe the attributes of the users account. In the <strong>Samba2.0</strong> release this field is bracketed by <code>'['</code> and <code>']'</code> characters and is always 13 characters in length (including the <code>'['</code> and <code>']'</code> characters). The contents of this field may be any of the characters. -<p><br><ul> -<p><br><a name="capU"></a> +<p><dl> +<p><a name="capU"></a> <li > <strong>'U'</strong> This means this is a <em>"User"</em> account, i.e. an ordinary user. Only <strong>User</strong> and <a href="smbpasswd.5.html#capW"><strong>Workstation Trust</strong></a> accounts are currently supported in the <strong>smbpasswd</strong> file. -<p><br><a name="capN"></a> +<p><a name="capN"></a> <li > <strong>'N'</strong> This means the account has <em>no</em> password (the passwords in the fields <a href="smbpasswd.5.html#LanmanPasswordHash"><strong>Lanman Password Hash</strong></a> and <a href="smbpasswd.5.html#NTPasswordHash"><strong>NT Password Hash</strong></a> are ignored). Note that this will only allow users to log on with no password if the <a href="smb.conf.5.html#nullpasswords"><strong>null passwords</strong></a> parameter is set in the <a href="smb.conf.5.html"><strong>smb.conf (5)</strong></a> config file. -<p><br><a name="capD"></a> +<p><a name="capD"></a> <li > <strong>'D'</strong> This means the account is disabled and no SMB/CIFS logins will be allowed for this user. -<p><br><a name="capW"></a> +<p><a name="capW"></a> <li > <strong>'W'</strong> This means this account is a <em>"Workstation Trust"</em> account. This kind of account is used in the Samba PDC code stream to allow Windows NT Workstations and Servers to join a Domain hosted by a Samba PDC. -<p><br></ul> -<p><br>Other flags may be added as the code is extended in future. The rest of +<p></dl> +<p>Other flags may be added as the code is extended in future. The rest of this field space is filled in with spaces. -<p><br><a name="LastChangeTime"></a> -<li><strong><strong>Last Change Time</strong></strong> <br> <br> -<p><br>This field consists of the time the account was last modified. It consists of +<p><a name="LastChangeTime"></a> +<p></p><dt><strong><strong>Last Change Time</strong></strong><dd> <br> <br> +<p>This field consists of the time the account was last modified. It consists of the characters <code>LCT-</code> (standing for <em>"Last Change Time"</em>) followed by a numeric encoding of the UNIX time in seconds since the epoch (1970) that the last change was made. -<p><br><li><strong><strong>Following fields</strong></strong> <br> <br> -<p><br>All other colon separated fields are ignored at this time. -<p><br></ul> -<p><br><a name="NOTES"></a> +<p><p></p><dt><strong><strong>Following fields</strong></strong><dd> <br> <br> +<p>All other colon separated fields are ignored at this time. +<p></dl> +<p><a name="NOTES"></a> <h2>NOTES</h2> -<p><br>In previous versions of Samba (notably the 1.9.18 series) this file +<p>In previous versions of Samba (notably the 1.9.18 series) this file did not contain the <a href="smbpasswd.5.html#AccountFlags"><strong>Account Flags</strong></a> or <a href="smbpasswd.5.html#LastChangeTime"><strong>Last Change Time</strong></a> fields. The Samba 2.0 code will read and write these older password files but will not be able to @@ -147,11 +147,11 @@ modify the old entries to add the new fields. New entries added with in the added accounts however. Thus an older <strong>smbpasswd</strong> file used with Samba 2.0 may end up with some accounts containing the new fields and some not. -<p><br>In order to convert from an old-style <strong>smbpasswd</strong> file to a new +<p>In order to convert from an old-style <strong>smbpasswd</strong> file to a new style, run the script <strong>convert_smbpasswd</strong>, installed in the Samba <code>bin/</code> directory (the same place that the <a href="smbd.8.html"><strong>smbd</strong></a> and <a href="nmbd.8.html"><strong>nmbd</strong></a> binaries are installed) as follows: -<p><br><pre> +<p><pre> cat old_smbpasswd_file | convert_smbpasswd > new_smbpasswd_file @@ -159,36 +159,36 @@ and <a href="nmbd.8.html"><strong>nmbd</strong></a> binaries are installed) as f </pre> -<p><br>The <strong>convert_smbpasswd</strong> script reads from stdin and writes to stdout +<p>The <strong>convert_smbpasswd</strong> script reads from stdin and writes to stdout so as not to overwrite any files by accident. -<p><br>Once this script has been run, check the contents of the new smbpasswd +<p>Once this script has been run, check the contents of the new smbpasswd file to ensure that it has not been damaged by the conversion script (which uses <strong>awk</strong>), and then replace the <code><old smbpasswd file></code> with the <code><new smbpasswd file></code>. -<p><br><a name="VERSION"></a> +<p><a name="VERSION"></a> <h2>VERSION</h2> -<p><br>This man page is correct for version 2.0 of the Samba suite. -<p><br><a name="SEEALSO"></a> +<p>This man page is correct for version 2.0 of the Samba suite. +<p><a name="SEEALSO"></a> <h2>SEE ALSO</h2> -<p><br><a href="smbpasswd.8.html"><strong>smbpasswd (8)</strong></a>, <a href="samba.7.html"><strong>samba +<p><a href="smbpasswd.8.html"><strong>smbpasswd (8)</strong></a>, <a href="samba.7.html"><strong>samba (7)</strong></a>, and the Internet RFC1321 for details on the MD4 algorithm. -<p><br><a name="AUTHOR"></a> +<p><a name="AUTHOR"></a> <h2>AUTHOR</h2> -<p><br>The original Samba software and related utilities were created by -Andrew Tridgell <a href="mailto:samba-bugs@samba.org"><em>samba-bugs@samba.org</em></a>. Samba is now developed +<p>The original Samba software and related utilities were created by +Andrew Tridgell <a href="mailto:samba@samba.org"><em>samba@samba.org</em></a>. Samba is now developed by the Samba Team as an Open Source project similar to the way the Linux kernel is developed. -<p><br>The original Samba man pages were written by Karl Auer. The man page +<p>The original Samba man pages were written by Karl Auer. The man page sources were converted to YODL format (another excellent piece of Open Source software, available at <a href="ftp://ftp.icce.rug.nl/pub/unix/"><strong>ftp://ftp.icce.rug.nl/pub/unix/</strong></a>) and updated for the Samba2.0 release by Jeremy -Allison, <a href="mailto:samba-bugs@samba.org"><em>samba-bugs@samba.org</em></a>. -<p><br>See <a href="samba.7.html"><strong>samba (7)</strong></a> to find out how to get a full +Allison, <a href="mailto:samba@samba.org"><em>samba@samba.org</em></a>. +<p>See <a href="samba.7.html"><strong>samba (7)</strong></a> to find out how to get a full list of contributors and details on how to submit bug reports, comments etc. </body> |